John Thune: “I believe what happened in the last 24 hours has demonstrated what a charade this whole Iraqi resolution process has…”

“I believe what happened in the last 24 hours has demonstrated what a charade this whole Iraqi resolution process has been. This is serious business. This is the most serious business we will deal with in the Senate. Young Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq. I would say, having been to Iraq on three different occasions-- most recently about 6 weeks ago--things in Baghdad are not going well. There are other parts of Iraq where we have made much better progress, even in some parts of western Iraq where we have gotten some buy-in from some of the local sheiks who have decided to participate in the democratic process and support the effort to provide security in that region of Iraq. But the fact is, things in Baghdad are not good.”